Bonny Portland

We were super excited to go to the Kennedy School, a property of McMenamins, for the first time last night. As mentioned before, its a former public school that was bought and turned into a bar. Its been on Dave Atell's Comedy Central show and is pretty well known. We chose Sept 17th for our trip because it is also known as"Halfway to St. Patrick's Day," the worlds favorite holiday (tm). Several of the McMenamins historic properties were having Irish themed singing and dancing so we were "all-in". Unfortunately, upon further review, all this was happening at 5 or 530pm. How the heck are people who work supposed to go?? They did have some non-Irish events going on later in the evening, but, whaaa? Kennedy School must wait for another day.

Disappointed about not being able to have some Irish fun, we decided to take our first trip/meal in the Pearl District. Knowing it was a bit more pricey than the area we live in, we decided to try a sushi place as the places around us have been waaaaayyy disappointing. (Are we finally going to have something to miss from LA???)


We decided on Hiroshi. Widely touted on review sites as one of the best in Portland. Everything was fresh and decidedly presented well. However, it was more like going to a fine dining restaurant where a good deal of effort was placed on ambiance. They also did not have sushi accompaniment staples : Unfiltered Sake and Plum wine. It quickly became clear that if we were going to get full, it was going to cost more than its value. As we were walking around Olivia saw an ice cream shop she wanted to try. Off to desert!!


Maybe its the fact that I haven't had _real_ ice_cream in years, but the Cool Moon Ice Cream shop was amazing. Everyone there was A+ nice and let Olivia sample as many flavors as she wanted. All local, all natural, and all made right there in the shop. Great flavors. I broke down and dared my lactose intolerant self to have a cone with Black Cherry and a flavor that tasted like Nutella. Well worth it!!! Olivia had some sort of Coffee and Summerberry. Great way to end the night, and I didn't even get sick!